Archive | May 2, 2013

LA indie disco quartet WALLA made waves last year with their single “Rising Tide,” which racked up over 100,000 plays on SoundCloud. Now they’re back with “No Time,” the first glimpse of their forthcoming Nature EP. This diverse ensemble – hailing from far flung locales including Korea, Brazil, El Salvador and Indonesia – has a [...]

Earlier this year, we posted the video for “The Beauty Surrounds,” a melancholic synthpop song from the Chicago duo Houses. Now, the Brooklyn-based producer Silent Rider has remixed the track, turning it into a spare six-minute throb but leaving its sense of ache intact. Download the remix below. Houses – “The Beauty Surrounds (Silent Rider [...]

Italian electronics-and-guitars dream-pop machine Mauro Remiddi is in the swing of making a proper followup to last year’s Strange Weekend LP, and he’s taken a practical tack to ensuring it sounds different: He sold off all his shit. All his instruments, anyway, and instead he invested in a modular synth. The LP itself is still [...]